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Heddigadelleriesheddigadelleries /ˌhɛdiɡәˈdɛlәriːz/interjection hello.Synonym: saloom, bonbonjuka, hearty miles, konniciaoa, howdy-g'daily-raysAntonym: feravidy mosta, moolas[a variant of Hoptanglish haudigudailiraze.]! I’m David and I seem to have a touch of the scribbles. I remember that day in junior school when we had to put little lettered cards into a series of transparent pockets to practise spelling. I enjoyed most subjects and English was by far my favourite, but something about that lesson in the tactile construction of words started awakening me to the fact that this thing called language is deeply profound. My awed fascination have been growing ever since.

Beyond spelling, my favourite homework became Words in Sentences. Whether it was vocabulary practice, pun cracking or book reading, every day I was inspired and nurtured by the wit, creativity and adventurousness of my father, John Roger Catchpoole, to whom I dedicate this work. Prior to 2006 I only occasionally had urges to coin words, but the more I indulged the more often it happened. In 2008 I knew I had to collate and organize them into a dictionary, so I began building Hoptanglish, which is my constructed language spoken in my fictional world of Hoptanglia. It’s an a posteriori, artistic conlang based on English, so it freely borrows from other languages. Over the past two decades the development of the scope, coherence and quality of the vocabulary has been my obsession. I invented 10,000 neologisms by 2010, 20,000 by 2016, 30,000 by 2018, 40,000 by 2021, and by the end of 2025 I reached 47,540. Every single word and definition has been thought-born and hand-crafted (i.e. original and written or typed) by myself alone with no automation other than using a program that finds anagrams out of any combination of letters. Quantity is not quality – many words and definitions are atrociously mediocre, boring or stupid, but there’s at least 23 that I’m proud of. It’s a gift that I can conjure new words into existence… but I also have a curse. From my twenties onwards I’ve been plagued with intrusive repetitive thoughts in the form of words or phrases, but I told almost nobody and became very isolated, and it wasn’t until 2024 that I finally got diagnosed with a form of Tourette’s Syndrome that causes mental tics. They’re rarely pleasant, sometimes neutral and often disturbing, but always involuntary, whereas my word-creation is a voluntary habit which I relish, so I’m not sure if the two conditions are even related but they do feel like two sides of the same manic-linguistic coin. Proper information and support has made the tics easy to manage, unlike the proper ignorance and prejudice that exasperated the tics for so long. By making this condition public for the first time in 2026, I hope to raise a smidgen or two of awareness about hidden disabilities as I learn to accept myself.

So, a hearty welcome to my site, where I’m realizing my long-held dream of weaving a digital lexiconvolutionlexiconvolutionn. a dictionary that has been enmazened, perhaps by sprawling terminex or rampant cross-referencing.lexiconvolutionary /ˌlɛksɪˌkɒnvɒˈluːʃәˌnɛːri/ adj. [a tiakler of lexicon + convolution.]; a terminological tumbleweed, which you can explore in different ways. The Hoptanglish-to-English side of the dictionary is here. Then there’s an English-to-Hoptanglish thesaurus is over here where you can look up words by their English equivalent. If you’d prefer to browse by subject, check out the category tree over there. For a guide to abbreviations, pronunciation and grammar, go thisaway. Then, if you feel like trying your luck with some games, go thataway. Hover your anathemuratizer over any unfamiliar word to get a pop-up definition.

Frovefrovevt. to enjoy.English: enjoy; savourfrov /ˈfrәʊvɪәl/ adj. froviality /ˌfrәʊvɪˈӕlәti/ n. [a curtail of English obsolete frover 'comfort'.] further!